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I just set-up Dropbox on my PC and on the Vega and when I drag files to the box on either device it sends it to the other automatically isn't that what you wanted? You just need to remember to press 'refresh' button on each device to see the new files have arrived

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Well I added a photo held on my PC to the Dropbox folder on the device yesterday and my Vega was turned on alongside it with Wi-fi on and when I did a refresh within the Vega based Dropbox the photo was already there but I'm not sure if it was the refresh that pulled it from the net or if it had been pushed to me in the background already. In iFilemanager it shows the dropbox folder but no contents which is rather odd so I can't check myself to see if the files appear before refresh is initiated. Any ideas peeps?

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Well I added a photo held on my PC to the Dropbox folder on the device yesterday and my Vega was turned on alongside it with Wi-fi on and when I did a refresh within the Vega based Dropbox the photo was already there but I'm not sure if it was the refresh that pulled it from the net or if it had been pushed to me in the background already. In iFilemanager it shows the dropbox folder but no contents which is rather odd so I can't check myself to see if the files appear before refresh is initiated. Any ideas peeps?

if you long press on the file in dropbox - you get the option to download it to the local device!!

Also ensure on the PC you have "Enable LAN sync" ticked so that it'll sync from the PC to Vega over your local network/wi-fi instead of downloading the file from the cloud.

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I've got ' Enable LAN sync' ticked on the PC, but I still need to 'download' from the Dropbox screen on the Vega to get the physical file in the Vega's dropbox folder.

takes about 7 mins for a 20 min video file to d/l to the Vega (streaming the file from the non-downloaded file via Dropbox gives a pause every few mins). Will set up Sugar Sync tonight to see if it will automatically sync to the Vega

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I've got ' Enable LAN sync' ticked on the PC, but I still need to 'download' from the Dropbox screen on the Vega to get the physical file in the Vega's dropbox folder.

takes about 7 mins for a 20 min video file to d/l to the Vega (streaming the file from the non-downloaded file via Dropbox gives a pause every few mins). Will set up Sugar Sync tonight to see if it will automatically sync to the Vega

Update:- Checked further and it appears this app is for syncing iTunes folders wirelessly so presumably cannot be used for files in other folders. Be interested to know if it does work in other folder from someone who has used it?

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ah - that's my other thread I started today - can't get the ftp to work (I assume ftp would be much quicker than Dropbox)

It probably would because with Dropbox you are uploading the file to an internet server and then downloading it again. FTP will transfer the file directly. I use an FTP server on my NAS (you'll find loads of free ones for Windows or Mac) and the client I use on my Android Desire is AndFTP. It works really well.

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It probably would because with Dropbox you are uploading the file to an internet server and then downloading it again. FTP will transfer the file directly. I use an FTP server on my NAS (you'll find loads of free ones for Windows or Mac) and the client I use on my Android Desire is AndFTP. It works really well.

FYI on dropbox - if you enable LAN Sync on the PC thats the "home" machine - it'll sync locally pc to tablet/phone/ipad/ipod.

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FYI on dropbox - if you enable LAN Sync on the PC thats the "home" machine - it'll sync locally pc to tablet/phone/ipad/ipod.

Yes it's a lot faster that way but I've sent the Dropbox support team a question on whether an option exists to stop internet uploads completely as I'd rather not send personal files beyond my LAN if I can help it.

Update:- Dropbox support team have replied saying there is no way of stopping the transmission of files to their cloud based server and suggesting there are other alternative apps available which will do that. So the hunt continues :P